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Christiaan Hetzner

"No mercy": Elon Musk keeps Twitter ban for Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones

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When it comes to the thorny decision over which banned Twitter accounts to reinstate, new owner Elon Musk is drawing a line at Alex Jones. 

The InfoWars host’s harmful claims that the government used kid actors to stage the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre, one of America’s worst school shootings but a hoax in Jones's telling, appears to have crossed Musk's line. Jones was ordered this month to pay $1.5 billion in damages and compensation to the families of the victims.

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